aesthete in reverie

on living and loving. queer. she/they.

[ef-1]

"Friend" is an AI wearable device designed to provide "companionship + emotional support"— i.e replace human friendships. Its literally an AI chatbot that you wear around your neck. "Friend" just paid for the largest ad campaign in NYC subway history

And Every. Single. Poster was vandalised, it literally looks like some of the most beautiful art you have ever seen

[jestershark]

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[ominous-signs]

Official ominous sign

[absolutelyiris]

Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham, after seven years of estrangement, posted the lyrics to their song "Frozen Love" and Twitter had thoughts.

[witchystevie]

stevie nicks and lindsey buckingham’s new instagram posts, quoting their song “frozen love” from 1973

[lemonycranberries]

there's something so uniquely tragic about the experience of being aro and going through your own type of unrequited love. when you desperately want to know someone down to each of their quirks, spend your time with them, be vulnerable and share your deepest secrets, live with them, be their first option - but you can't, because all of those things are reserved for their romantic partner. they'll never feel the same way about you, and if they do, then comes the irony: you can't then reciprocate because then it's in a romantic context only. it's such an awful feeling to click with someone in a way you've never clicked with anyone else, think that they might be your soulmate, and have everyone around you ask "why aren't you dating? you'd make such a great couple" and maybe even feel that "well, maybe I could try" only to realize it's viscerally uncomfortable for you to even think about "trying" at all. that's not the type of love you want. but it's the type of love they want, in the end. and you desperately try to wonder if you should try to enter a romantic relationship with them, just to hold that spot in their life, just so you can be as special to them as they are to you - just to desperately cling onto what you have before it fades away. because after all, at some point they'll want and have a partner - and that partner won't be you. and from the moment that they have them, you'll never get the chance to be this close to them again. slowly you'll feel them pulling away as you can't do anything about it but watch, because you can't simply get "in between" a couple. certain attitudes and types of closeness are reserved for one type of love only. despite not being allo, you see yourself stuck in that same old tale you've always heard of: being "in love" with someone in a way in which they simply cannot reciprocate. they'll never be "in love" with you back, and as each day passes by you feel the tension inside you increasing, as if you're only counting the days before the ultimate tragedy arrives and you'll just never speak to them or laugh with them or cry with them again. you'll just watch from afar with an ache in your chest, and now suddenly you understand what was so painful about all those cliché unrequited love stories you used to see everywhere.

[hansdown]

oh my favorite trope? two people who go through something so unique and agonizing and entirely beyond words that they have no choice but to create a bond that transcends all other types of love, thus acting as the sole point of understanding for the other person in a world that cannot fathom what they’ve been through

[aestheteinreverie]

WELL BABY, WHAT WAS THAT

[grateful-for-zayn]

Zayn's cover of Night Changes (full) [STTST Mexico City Night I, 25.03.25].

[grateful-for-zayn]

Zayn's cover of Night Changes [STTST Mexico City Night I, 25.03 25].

[sailermoon]

be careful with what series you watch/read during emotional points in your life because they will forever contain a ghost of your past self within it now

[loveridden1999]

“I told myself if I ever won a Grammy and I got to stand up here in-front of the most powerful people in music, I would demand that labels and the industry profiting millions of dollars off artists would offer a liveable wage and healthcare, especially to developing artists… labels we got you, but do you got us?”- Chappell Roan during her GRAMMYS acceptance speech.

[solalasoforth]

[sunshineandlyrics]

Troye's speech after he wins the ARIA Award for Album of the Year 2024 (Something to Give Each Other), 20 November 2024.

[thatone-highlighter]

I love you albums. I love you songs connected by similar themes. I love you listening to songs in a specific order picked by the artist. I love you reoccurring motifs throughout the same album. I love you album covers. I love you albums with extended editions. I love you songs that reference each other.

[silverview]

psa

[stellaluna33]

I have a theory... and this is just like, conjecture! I'm not an anthropologist and I haven't done or read any studies or anything... I think the way our culture seems increasingly enthusiastic about ritualistic seasonal consumerism (the pumpkin spice lattes and aesthetic Gilmore Girls binges of Fall, for example) is that our lives are increasingly devoid of the rhythm of traditions historically provided by a common religion or societies organized around agrarian cycles. I think that as humans, we crave cyclical time-organization (each season is both new and exciting, yet comfortingly familiar) and social connection, but our society no longer naturally provides that. Most people are completely disconnected from the agricultural cycle, and with globalization and refrigeration, foods that were once highly seasonal are increasingly available year-round (convenient! Yet boring!). Harvesting and food production is no longer a communal activity, but yet another specialized commodity provided by a few professionals. So, what can we do to mark the passage of time? How do we connect with each other and keep from just drifting aimlessly? We buy stuff and consume media! This is increasingly all we have left.

[missingvibrance]

one of the greatest tragedies in life is that you will always be loved more than you will ever know. someone in class finds your presence inviting and warm, even if you’ve only ever exchanged a few words with them—maybe none at all. someone on the street loves your smile and it gets them down the next few streets. someone you used to be friends with still wishes to fondly call your name. someone you used to be friends with five years ago would give anything to be in the same room as you today. someone who regularly comes into work is disappointed when you aren’t there to brighten their day. someone missed you today. someone noticed you were gone. someone loves you when you’re there; someone loves you when you’re nowhere to be found at all. you think you have always disappeared when you’re no longer in the picture, but you’ve never left the frame.

[twopoppies]

x

I saw this yesterday in a still photo. But somehow the video makes the way one breaks away from the pack even more poignant.